Training
•Four semesters of ensemble study through concert band, stage band, Chorale, or Panola Pipers
•Four semesters of two-credit applied study in Brass
•Small classes and performance opportunities support preparation for transfer
Facilities
•Frances B. Ross Music Building with practice rooms, study spaces, piano lab, band hall, and choir room
•Separate first-through-second-year lesson sequences are published for trumpet, horn and trombone.
•Euphonium/baritone and tuba retain their own lesson-number families rather than sharing a generic applied course.
•Current faculty recitals feature trumpeter James Bogs and trombonist Dwaine Hubbard in repertoire spanning Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.
Degree Flexibility
•60-hour AS Music Field of Study designed for transfer to a four-year institution